(1)Introduction to sociolinguistics

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3.1. Definition of Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguitis is the study of the relationship
between language and society.(Hu Zhuanglin) Sociolingistics is the study of language in relation to society.(Hudson) Sociolinguisitcs is concerned with investigating the relationship between languge and society with the goal of getting a better understanding of the structure of language and of how language function in communicatiom.(Trudgill)
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Tranformational generative grammar is the
Transformational generative grammar
linguisitic achivements of American linguist Noam Chomsky. Accoding to the theory, all the sentence structures can be explained by the deep structrue, surface structure and a set of transformational rules. And there must be some universal rules that all languages share and linguists’ tasks are to find these underlying rules which he calls competence.
are drawn together for a certain purpose or purposes. Language is what the members of a particular society speak.
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language Lingua Franca Acting and conversing Language planning
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1.4. Course Credit
The final assessment comprises of 20%
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3. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Definition Historical Context Main contents Methods
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2.3. Course Plan
Introduction of sociolinguistics Language, dialect, variety
Social factors that influence the use of
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Saussure’s langue and parole
Saussure is the father of modern lingusitcs and
his distinction between langue and parole is a marvelous beginning of language study. Langue(语言)--the abstract linguistic system shared by all members of a speech community. Parole（言语）—the realization of langue in actual use. Saussure takes a sociological view of language and his notion of langue is a set of conventions and rules users all have to abide by.
Course plan
Course credit
Suggested readings
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2.1 Course description
Sociolinguistics is an elective/optional course for English majors. During the course, students will be guided to explore the relationship between language and society. The course will mainly focus on the explanation of the social factors which influnence the use of human language.
Warming up activities Course description Introduction to sociolinguistics
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1. Warming up activities
What is society?
Sociolinguistics
--An Introduction Week: the first week Date: Feb. 13th 2012 Lecturer: Lei Qian
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Introduction of Sociolinguistics
What is Laguage?
Can you list some personal examples to
show that languge is affected by social factors?
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Society is any group of people who
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age
education
Language is affected by social factors
occupation
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2. Course Description
Course description
Course objectives
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Sociolingusitics
Socoilinguistics no longer focuses on
language structure itself to study language, but begin to consider the functions of language and looking for evidences of socially accepeted rules accounting for variations in speech. So it is a complementary and modification to the traditional linguisitic study.
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Structurlism
Structuralism is the linguistic theories
proposed by a group of American linguists. The representative figure is Bloomfield. Structurlism advocates the objective description of the classification of language forms and structures.
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2.2.Teaching Objectives
During the study of the course, students are expected: To learn the basic concepts and fundamental theories of sociolinguistics. To understand how those social factors affect the use of language and different study methods employed. To foster your awereness and sensitivity to the language variations.